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| When the Economy Suffers, Safety
Shouldn’t |
| Keeping
Safety a Priority |
-Keeping Safety a Priority-Keeping
your Budget Down while
Protecting your Streets
-Road Safety Statistics
-How Traffic Logix Products Can
Make Your Roads Safer |
| The
failing economy has affected nearly every individual, corporation, and
municipality. Although everyone is feeling the effects of the economic
downfall, it’s important not to lose focus of our
priorities. |
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| Keeping your streets safe and
preventing accidents and fatalities
continues to be of paramount concern. With all the focus on budgetary
issues and economic worries, it is important to keep working to control
traffic speeds and protect the safety of pedestrians, cyclists, and
motorists. |
| Keeping
your Budget Down while Protecting your Streets |
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Many cities are working to cut their budgets or at the
very least to keep them from expanding. Buying traffic
calming
solutions from Traffic Logix can help you keep your costs down. Instead
of having law enforcement professionals spend their time patrolling
local streets to enforce speed laws, traffic calming products
offer
an ongoing solution to
ensure that speed limits are obeyed. This in turn frees up the time of
law enforcement individuals, allowing them to work on other municipal
concerns. |
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| The intuitive design of
Traffic Logix rubber traffic
calming solutions allows them to be easily moved during the winter
or for any road resurfacing, and reinstalled. This eliminates the cost
of recreating new asphalt solutions. The rubber solutions can also be
installed as tests and moved from location to location to calm traffic
on different neighborhood streets. Traffic Logix rubber products are
simple to install and do not require costly equipment or work crews.
Unlike asphalt solutions, rubber is always within spec since it is
preformed. This versatility, which cannot be offered by solutions that
are paved into the road, ensures that your investment in rubber
traffic calming is cost-effective and lasting. |
| Road Safety
Statistics |
- The
total societal cost of crashes exceeds $230 billion annually.
(FHWA, 2007)
- In
2007, 41,059 people
died in car crashes. (FHWA, 2007)
- 30%
of the people killed in traffic accidents are under age 25. (FHWA, 2007)
- Most
pedestrian fatalities occur in urban
areas (73%) at non
intersection locations (77%) in normal weather conditions
(90%) and at night (67%). (NHTSA, 2007)
- A
five year case-control study found that children with speed humps in
their neighborhoods had 50%
lower odds of being hurt or injured in a vehicle accident.
(American Journal of Public Health, 2004)
- A study conducted in Portland,
OR found that streets with traffic calming experienced a 39% decrease in crash frequency.
(2008)
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| How
Traffic Logix Products Can Make your Streets Safer |
| The Traffic Logix complete
line of traffic
calming solutions, including rubber products and radar
speed signs, are all designed with one goal in mind- protecting pedestrians and
motorists and keeping
your streets safe. |
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| Rubber products are embedded
with highly reflective highway tape so that they are visible to motorists,
even at night. They are built from interlocking units that connect to
each other before being securely fastened to the road so that they stay
in place and do not shift. They are built to comply with ITE standards
and are engineered to
slow cars effectively without being a harsh impediment to
drivers. |
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Speed
humps, cushions, and
tables, each address different safety concerns and slow cars to
different speeds so that you can choose
the rubber solution that best
suits your speed limit and safety needs. Rubber
solutions keep your
streets safe by compelling drivers to slow down.
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Traffic Logix radar
speed signs are another effective traffic calming
solution and are compliant with MUTCD standards. The unique optical
system
offers the best
visibility available,
ensuring that the signs can be viewed
clearly, even from far distances or in poor lighting conditions. LEDs
function using only 30% of their power, saving energy and lowering
costs. Signs can be
programmed to perform according to your specifications and scheduling.
Radar
speed signs help keep your roads safe by making drivers more aware of
their
speeds.
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| To learn more about Traffic
Logix products and solutions, visit us on the web at www.trafficlogix.com,
send us an email at info@trafficlogix.com
or give us a call at 866-915-6449. We look forward to hearing from you! |
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| Traffic Logix wishes you and
yours a safe and happy holiday
season. Remember, the best gift you
can give
your city is safer, more livable streets. |
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